Eddy O'Hare was out fishing on his kayak in Canterbury, New Zealand, when suddenly an orca swam underneath his kayak. O'Hare yelled in disbelief as the massive whale approached. Kevin O'Leary on ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

On Apr. 6, Center for Whale Research biologist Mark Malleson spotted the J Pod heading west past Victoria Harbour, off Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It was then that he saw a newborn calf ...

A rare sighting of critically endangered southern resident killer whales off the Oregon coast offers a glimpse of a ...

The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was first spotted in the Salish ...

He will grow to be five metres long, be able swim up to 100 miles a day and dive to 500ft - but this orca will spend all his life in what environmentalists call a "concrete coffin". Morgan, the ...

Orcas are toothed whales and are closely related to narwhals and belugas, sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They are massive, and male orcas can weigh up to 22,000 pounds.